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Collaboration, awareness: Strategies of the Fort Worth Police Human Trafficking Unit

By TCU 360 Staff
Published Apr 29, 2022
The Fort Worth Police Department Human Trafficking Unit, which transitioned from the major case unit in 2019, identifies and removes people being used by human traffickers. This story is part of "The City Beat," an ongoing series that explores issues facing Fort Worth.
Amanuel Taddesse, second from right, shows off his team’s project to curator Rhiannon Mayne. Bingyang Wei’s computer science senior design team developed an app that can be downloaded onto tablets in the gallery. (Camilla Price/Copy Desk Chief)

Ready to launch: Students create app to make meteorite gallery more inclusive

By Camilla Price
Published Apr 29, 2022
Students in the computer science capstone course designed an app to help visually impaired visitors navigate the Monnig Meteorite Gallery at TCU.
Downtown Fort Worth

How the Fort Worth Crisis Intervention Team handles mental health calls

By TCU 360 Staff
Published Apr 29, 2022
Individuals suffering from untreated mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed during a police encounter than other civilians, according to a study from the Treatment Advocacy Center. This story is part of "The City Beat," an ongoing series that explores issues facing Fort Worth.
Children from the Prestonwood Christian Academy watch as a riderless horse is escorted to the funeral service for Little Elm Police Department Det. Jerry Walker at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017. Fort Worth Mounted Patrol officer Cathy Fowler takes the reins. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News via AP, Pool)

How the Fort Worth Mounted Patrol has protected the city for over a century

By TCU 360 Staff
Published Apr 29, 2022
The Mounted Patrol has kept its mission — “no terrain too rough, no task too tough” — alive for over a century. This story is part of "The City Beat," an ongoing series that explores issues facing Fort Worth.
Another shooting near the West Seventh entertainment district left at least one dead late Saturday night. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

The FWPD Vice Unit: Putting a stop to illegal organizations

By TCU 360 Staff
Published Apr 29, 2022
The Fort Worth Police Department Vice Unit investigated crimes related to organized gambling operations, electronic file-sharing of child pornography, online solicitation of minors and prostitution-based escort services. This story is part of "The City Beat," an ongoing series that explores issues facing Fort Worth.
Downtown Fort Worth

The city beat: Fort Worth, Texas

By Haeven Gibbons
Published Apr 29, 2022
This is the first of an ongoing series of articles examining issues facing Fort Worth. The stories were reported and written by students in JOUR 30204. Working in teams, students explore issues through the Fault Lines of class, generation, geography, gender, sexual orientation and race.
Longhorns walk the street during a cattle drive demonstration at the Fort Worth Stockyards Thursday, March 11, 2021. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Keeping Funky Town under control: What’s the Fort Worth Crime Control and Prevention District?

By TCU 360 Staff
Published Apr 29, 2022
The CCPD was initially established in 1995 to combat local crime— record crime rates across the city in the late '80s and early '90s were the driving force of the CCPD — but over the last 25 years, it has become an integral part of city spending. This story is part of "The City Beat," an ongoing series that explores issues facing Fort Worth.